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How Not to Invest

The ideas, numbers, and behaviors that destroy wealth—and how to avoid them

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How Not to Invest

By: Barry Ritholtz
Narrated by: Barry Ritholtz, Nathan Adams Stark - foreword
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This book was designed to reduce mistakes.

Your mistakes with money.

Tiny errors, epic fails and everything in between.

You can do thousands of things right, but make just a few of the errors we discuss, and you destroy much of your portfolio.

If you could learn how to avoid the unforced errors investors make all the time, you would make your life so much richer and less stressful.

The counterintuitive truth is avoiding errors is much more important than scoring wins.

How Not To Invest shows you a few simple tools and models that will help you avoid the most common mistakes people make with their money. Learn these, and you are ahead of 98% of your peers.

Make fewer errors, end up with more money.

We all make mistakes. The goal with this book is to help you make fewer of them, and to have the mistakes you do make be less expensive.

©2025 Barry Ritholtz (P)2025 Harriman House Analysis & Strategy Investing & Trading Personal Finance Money Investing Stock
Practical Advice • Colorful Storytelling • Actionable Insights • Engaging Narration • Accessible Explanations
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I do not like investing books; most are nonsense, but “How Not to Invest” is different. The title is apt, and the behaviour to avoid is clearly outlined. This book provides an education and learning that would take a lifetime of mistakes to figure out. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in money, and their financial security all without bothering too much about market conditions.

Worth every second. Listen to it.

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I enjoyed the book more than I thought I would, and it’s loaded with great advice. Highly recommended!

Great book on investing!

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What a wonderful book! Enjoyed and learned every second. Highly recommend for everyone wands to improve themselves

Perfect!

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I am a big Barry Ritholtz fan. His Masters in Business podcast and other shows associated with his business (Compound and Friends, Animal Spirits. What Are Your Thoughts?) make him someone I respect and admire when it comes to investing. This book is filled with practical and actionable advice, colorful stories, and even more reasons to make investing as boring as possible. I highly recommend it!

Practical Advice with Colorful Storytelling

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The pitfalls of personal investing are many and he rationalizes with you, like a friend, to not fall for the irrationality that exists in your mind, others selling you things, public mania, and commercialized selling of products, etc., etc. I really appreciate it and was surprised to see it was nearly 14 hours to do that. However, working as a financial planner, I know too well all the ways in which people sabotage themselves from reaching financial freedom and have empathy. I learned from this book how to have better counter discussions with clients to perhaps encourage them to persist and stay the course with a lifelong process of investing.

I do disagree with him on the Harvard endowment example, he may have personal knowledge on the events that occurred, but that pivot to lower cost management and future losses was more due to market constraints on private equity. He believes that if they kept paying millions of dollars to money managers they would have continued to earn billions. Those high cost managers-even if kept in power-would have had significant losses from 2008 on. But hey, fantastic book, hope lots of people read.

A lifetime of personal investing uncovered

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I love this book. I have been waiting for it since it was introduced on Masters in Business Podcast and it was actually much better than I thought. The author’s analysis of himself and others should be the new standard on how all financial books should be authored. It’s very up to date, up to the recent deepseek pullback. His comments on Bloomberg after the book release about the tariffs is on point. This is one of the few books where I have both audio and text. Also, I listen to this with my 10 and 13 yo daughters to establish a basic financial foundation. Thank you Mr. Ritholz. Another plus, it was narrated by the author himself.

As objective and unbiased as it will probably ever get

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Love his no BS narration and useful for investment tips. I listened to it twice and may do it one more time.

Tons of useful tips

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Great book, one of the best ever. Specially, making the difficult subjects easy to understand, and fun to listen to.

Made the complicated subjects, very simple to understand

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Enjoyed listening to this book, simple truths, important to reinforce and repeat. Very pleasant style

Great book, pleasant read

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knowledge from an expert investor. applicable advice for every stage of investing. enjoyable practical listen. one of the best on my list

Great advice

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